European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday August 3.1986 legislators target Dod inflation funds Washington up two key members of the House armed services commit if said saturday icy will offer a proposal next week to keep the defense department from profiting from inflation. Our proposal forbids the defense department from burying inflation funds in the defense budget chairman Lei Aspin d-wis., and rep. Nicholas Mario uses a mass said in a statement. The lawmakers said la in proposal will be offered As an Amend ,.icnl to the $292 billion Pentagon spending plan for fiscal 1987. The amendment would set up an Independent inflation fund in the trea sury and any Money used to reimburse a contractor for the Impact of inflation would have to be taken from that fund and justified As an inflation Cost. Aspin last year revealed that the Pentagon had profit a from inflation be cause it had budgeted Lens of billions of dollars for inflation thai never occurred during the Early a sos. But the Pentagon loss financial ground in the Laic 1970s, when inflation was much greater than expected. Either Way. It s a raw Deal Aspin and Mavroulis said. The Pentagon should neither profit nor lose As ,1 result or inflation. We should t have an inflation  the difficulty in forecasting inflation figures which arc used to project into future years estimated defense coys can Lead to higher than necessary budget re quests. If the estimates arc too High a service can be left with a slush fund to tap Inlo the lawmakers said. Their plan would require a budget to show How much is required assuming no inflation and then add a separate figure to cover inflation rather than providing one Overall figure. Amounts needed 10 High wire artist walks blindfolded 16 stories above City pavement Stamford Conn. Up tight rope Zirtist Philippe Petit who says walk ing on a Cable High above the Earth is a form of artistic expression Ca i his latest High wire exploit Between two High Rise buildings a Success. Petit who gained notoriety for an illegal August 1974 Romp Between the towers or new York s world Trade Center Friday strode jumped jogged Lay Down and walked blindfolded on a Stout Cable Strung Between iwo 16 blindfolded Philippe Clil walks � wire More Tolura 200 feet above the ground. Story office buildings. This Lime Petil s Aerial performance was sanctioned by City officials who provided a massive police presence and by the owners of the building com Plevi whose Walkie talkie wielding Security agents were by every Entrance and on nearby rooftops to protect Petit. He made six passes Between the two buildings 237 feet above certain death on a Cement Plaza and a Glass topped atrium while a noontime crowd of about 1,000 cheered his exploits. Petit 36, who performed the of a with no safety net later called the event a Complete Success at a news conference in the building lobby. He had problems with the hazy Sun Shine heating hit Ballet slippers and making them Slippery he said As Well As with the winds thai twirled in the 120-foot passage Between the two Glass and Ste a office lower. When you fight the winds 16 Sto Ries High you just walk he said. I Don t really think. 1 Don t have enough room in my  Petit arrived at the top of one of the buildings standing and waving from one runner of a helicopter that hovered briefly while he jumped out Pei ii in while tight and White tue do jacket with a purple ush which he used As a Blindfold during a portion of one of his passes smiled briefly at his assistants As he jumped to the building parapet. He bowed to the crowd and the news photographer lining the rooftop and then hopped onto the nigh wire. At one Point. Petit lowered himself into a sitting position on the wire and then Lay on his Back with his legs Dan gling below the wire while holding his balance pole aloft Petit a new a Etc resident ought himself to walk the High wires when he was a boy in France and has combined his High wire performances with writ ing poetry screenplays and non fic Tion. Cover inflation would then come out of the Spehl Treasury account. Estimates of How much the Pentagon got in an inflation dividend in the Early 1980s initially were put at Between 118 billion and 150 billion and were later refined to Between $30 billion and 140 billion. That Money said Aspin vanished under four rocks the shifting of Money from  program to another unconscious waste in the defense Indus try through less efficiency congressional action to reclaim some of the Money and unexpended balances or Money left Over at the end of each year. President defends his Trade policy Washington i i president Reagan said saturday his Trade policy under lire on Capitol Hill will not play off one Region against another and a House override of his veto of a textile Bill would invite certain retaliation against american Farmers. In his weekly radio address from Camp David my. Reagan pointed to the administration s result oriented Trade negotiations that resulted in agreements last week to open Japan to More american computer Chip and to protect against surges of cheap asian Lex Lile imports. What does t bring results is the Ion of Deumic zionist legislation now before the House of representatives Reagan said adding thai the House legislation would Force a 30 percent cutback in clothing imports from the far East and other countries. He said overriding the veto would Cost Consumers $44 billion in higher Price in the next five years or $70,000 Lor every textile Job saved. These temporarily protected jobs would be More than offset by the Kwh of other jobs directly related to Export ing Reagan contended. And you could bet Here would be retaliation. I m thinking especially of our struggling agricultural sector Ana its re lated Nous Friej. Some of the first victims of Retalia Tion would be our Farmers kicking them when they re already Down. So our Trade policy remains a positive one that will not play off one Region against another or one american worker against another. Doing grievous damage to the industries involved he said we must be careful that the cure is not worse than the  my Council of economic adv sort estimate this Bill would Cost you the consumer j44 billion Over the next five years 170,000 for every Job saved Jot that pay about $ 13,000 on average. Even worse these temporarily Prelec Ted Jobi would be More than offset by the Ion of thousands of other jobs. Directly re lated to importing Reagan contended. School officials sued for using polygraph tests Tampa flu. A a s5.5 million lawsuit filed against Polk county school officials alleges they violated students constitutional rights by subjecting them to Lii Tecl Cicior tests in disciplinary cases. The lawsuit was filed Friday in Federal court by the american civil liberties Union against the school Board superintendent John a. Stewart his assistant Bill Duncan and polygraph examiner Richard Stanley. It is based on the eases of two youths. Wade Harris and Danny Roy jr., who were subjected to lie Detector tests sus Pended from classes and forced to attend alternative school. Lawyer James Clark who filed the suit said he asked for a hearing before the school year starts aug. 25 on his re quest for a preliminary injunction bar ring the tests. At a news conference Clark called the polygraph testing a poor substitute for common  school officials say the tests Given to students in grades seven through 12 Are a Way for students to exonerate themselves when accused by a teacher or a peer of violating conduct code violations. Critics say the tests Force students to prove their innocence Duncan who u in charge of school discipline said the lie Detector tests Are voluntary and have been administered 350 limes in the 60,000-student District including an estimated 130 limes in the past school year. The tests were started in 1981 by administrative action not school Board policy and were not challenged locally. But a series of Ankles this Spring by the news chief of Winter Haven reported that civil rights lawyers child pay cub trials and school officials in other coun ties were shocked when they teamed about the practice. Stewart Polk superintendent Lime 1983, asked the Board in april to limit use of the tests to serious Case involving possible expulsion. The Board voted 4-0 against modifying the practice. Stewart then banned the tests. Bui be Board voted 3-2 to reinstate them despite overwhelming Public opposition is May 27 Public hearing